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Upgraded my old 20gig iPod with a CF card – now its a 32gb flash iPod

Posted by richardyoo on Natuba

The hard drive on my old 20gb iPod died and I figured I’d just upgrade it to flash instead of throwing it away.

I bought a 32gb CF card and a CF card to 1.8″ ide converter.

The toughest part was opening up the iPod (which wasn’t all that hard – plenty of how-to’s on the ‘net). After getting the card in the adapter, and the adapter into the iPod, I closed up the case and plugged it into my PC for its sync. After it re-sync’ed my music all was well.

32gigs of solid-state space on my oldie-but-goodie iPod! :D

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    • This entry was posted on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 7:09 pm and is filed under Ramblings. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    5 Responses to “Upgraded my old 20gig iPod with a CF card – now its a 32gb flash iPod”

    1. Fred Richards Says:
      November 2nd, 2009 at 7:17 pm

      Ooh. A FlashPod.

    2. Quickhack: iPod HDD to CF conversion - Hack a Day Says:
      November 3rd, 2009 at 10:23 am

      [...] tipped us off about converting an iPod from a hard drive to a Compact Flash card. We actually did this a few years ago. Because we frequently buy broken electronics we had an old [...]

    3. kevin Says:
      November 3rd, 2009 at 12:52 pm

      How is your iPod working now ?
      Is it faster ? Does the battery lasts longer ?

    4. Roundup: simple hacks - Hack a Day Says:
      November 9th, 2009 at 4:01 pm

      [...] tipped us off about converting an iPod from a hard drive to a Compact Flash card. We actually did this a few years ago. Because we frequently buy broken electronics we had an old [...]

    5. anacron Says:
      November 11th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

      I just checked that 32gb cf costs here in Finland as much as a new ipod, but you probably got it a bit cheaper right? :D